To provide a comprehensive international perspective on management and leadership thinking.

To supervise students to understand a firm as a human organization, which develops by organizational learning.

To open the domain of business competence as a school of strategic thinking.

To offer an efficient and comprehensive stakeholder framework for description, analysis and management of a firm in an environmental actor context.

To familiarize the students to business ethics thinking and its role in the future of business and strategy.

The course opens the contextual understanding of business as a part of a society.

The course allows students to learn about international financial accounting and reporting standards and procedures both from the standard setting and theoretical and practical perspectives.

The course covers the use of financial and managerial accounting concepts for analysis, problem solving and decision-making in corporations.

The course covers all the main areas of current accounting theory and practice.

To give students a comprehensive understanding of culturally embedded leadersip ideologies and practices in various countries.

To give the students an in-depth understanding of the nature of strategic change from the leadership perspective.

To provide an integrative understanding of strategic thinking in organizations.